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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> 
> attached are new spells for init.d, simpleinit-msb and udev.
> Changes to the current system:
> - there's a new runlevel %DEV which gets started before %S for setting
>   up /dev (needed because the devices script has to be run alone)
> - the init.d spell now asks whether you want to use devfs, udev or
>   static dev on /dev
> - inittab gets installed by init.d now (saves a trigger for
>   simpleinit-msb)
> - you can switch between the different /dev systems by a cast -r -c
>   init.d
> - if you use devfs on /dev you _don't_ need devfs=mount, it will be
>   mounted in the same way as the ramfs udev uses
> 
> What's still missing:
> - the init.d spell should create a static /dev tree when the user
>   chooses udev or static /dev, i need a makedevices script for that,
>   anyone got a complete one lying around?
> - /etc/fstab and /etc/securetty need to be changed by hand to use the
>   correct devices, not yet sure how to handle this automatically
> 
> The order in which you install the spells shouldn't matter, just make
> sure you install all three changed spells if you want to use udev, or
> simpleinit-msb and init.d if you want static /dev or devfs.

Thanks, I'll give it a go on my laptop.

The /etc/fstab and /etc/securetty could probably be done the same way the 
devfs
change went in the init.d spell.

-sandalle

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